Mostly likely because your router address is 192.168.1.1 so the laptop cannot have the same address. Pick different between 2-250.
-Tomas On Nov 10, 2017 9:57 AM, "Rich Shepard" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a completely new issue here. > > I'm using my Dell Latitude E5410, running Slackware-14.2/x86_64 to > configure the Ubiquiti ER-X. The laptop's eth0 IP address needs to be set > to 192.168.1.1 to configure the router's WAN port. Then I need to change > the > laptop's eth0 IP address to 192.168.55.2 (its LAN host address) because the > Ubiquti's LAN IP address was changed to 192.168.55.4. This swapping > back-and-forth lead to last week's thread and Wes' suggestion to have both > subnet IP addresses assigned to eth0. I did this. > > Now, however, I cannot ping LAN hosts or the Ubiquiti router. Looking at > inconfig eth0 on the laptop now shows it has an ipv6 address rather than > the > expected ipv4 address. Huh? How'd this happen? > > I've no idea what caused this but need to learn ASAP how to get it back > to > using ipv4 addressing. > > Never a dull moment with computers, eh? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
